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The Academy of Muses
José Luis Guerin's breakthrough feature, In the City of Sylvia (2007), was largely wordless, but this subsequent effort (2015) is fiercely verbal, an interminable colloquy …
Facets Cinematheque

Don't Call Me Son
In this engrossing Brazilian drama, a slovenly 17-year-old boy questioning his gender identity (Naomi Nero) has his world rocked when police arrive at his lower-class …
Gene Siskel Film Center

Elle
Dutch writer-director Paul Verhoeven, making his first French-language film, returns to the themes of sexual perversion and errant womanhood he mined in Basic Instinct (1992) …
Landmark's Century Centre

Fire at Sea
This searching documentary about the European immigration crisis focuses on the Sicilian island of Lampedusa, where thousands of people arrive each year from Africa and …
Gene Siskel Film Center

Romeo + Juliet
A 1996 version of the Shakespeare play, directed and coscripted by Baz Luhrmann (Moulin Rouge!), that transposes the action to the American present. (The setting …
Gene Siskel Film Center